The cinema film De Wilde Stad has achieved the Golden Film status and attracted more than 100,000 visitors to the cinema since the release of 1 March. The makers of De Nieuwe Wildernis and Holland, Nature in the Delta, show the urban nature with De Wilde Stad from the perspective of the many unnoticed wild animals and plants. The Golden Film has been handed over to film director Abatutu and director Mark Verkerk by the Netherlands Film Fund and the Netherlands Film Festival. The...

Cat trainer Sabine van der Helm exactly the right cat. When a suitable cat was searched for the leading role in De Wilde Stad, cat trainer Sabine van der Helm knew immediately what it should be: Abatutu. "Only he can do this job. When we were filming during the Gay Pride, a woman came to us who said she was so sad for Abatutu. She thought it was animal abuse to run such a cat between the crowd, she even wanted to call the police. While she said that, she snapped into a ...

In De Wilde Stad, people are figurants and animals are the star players who usually go unnoticed. Pigeons see everyone daily, but we do not really know much about the feeding of the coot. The love affairs of the common swift, the communication between rats and the daily hunting of the peregrine falcon from the ABN AMRO building are also endearing, fascinating and spectacular. The Wilde Stad is the work of the creators of De Nieuwe Wildernis (Golden Calf 2013) and Holland, nature in...

The makers The Wild City are well aware of what is happening in the city; even exotics like ringed parakeets are rightly given a warm welcome. Man is also an animal species, but curiously he is missing in nature films. The most famous example of this is De Nieuwe Wildernis (2013) about the Oostvaardersplassen from Mark Verkerk and Ruben Smit. No human being to be seen, only wild animals in conflict with life and death. Wild (2018) about the Veluwe of Luc Enting shows how weak a...